Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.

Bujold herself has commented that her posited system is neither technologically nor economically feasible, but is rather a convenience for storytelling.

Bujold had mainly feature film experience, was unprepared for a schedule demanded by series television, and was unwilling to do news interviews.

That day, film actress Geneviève Bujold was selected to play Janeway, but left the role after only two days of filming, due to the demanding production schedule required for a television show.

Alternatively, it may be an indirect tribute to the actor Oliver Reed, whom Bujold is known to admire ( she has cited him as a model for Miles ' father Aral Vorkosigan ); Reed played the role of Athos in the 1973 film version of The Three Musketeers.

The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction ( Bob Clark ), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role ( Geneviève Bujold ) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role ( Christopher Plummer ).

While that film featured a larger " all star " cast ( in fact, Universal had approached several, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, to star in Earthquake-but they had already been signed for Inferno ), Universal was able to land Charlton Heston in the lead role, along with Ava Gardner ( who signed at the proverbial " 11th hour " simply because she wanted to spend the summer in Los Angeles ), George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold ( who agreed to a part in the film to head off an impending lawsuit by Universal over a prior project ), Richard Roundtree ( riding a wave of success from the Shaft film series ), former evangelical Marjoe Gortner as an antagonist, and newcomer Victoria Principal.

Also, Elizabeth Montgomery was the first choice for Denise, but Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Sharon Gless, Sondra Locke, Meredith Baxter, Kate Jackson, Susan St. James and Susan Clark were also in the running for the part finally played by Genevieve Bujold.

* Hugo Award for Best Novel: Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

* Winner: LA Critics Circle 1989 Best Supporting Actress for Little Dorrit ( shared with Geneviève Bujold )

Bujold was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Bonaventure — Îles-de-la-Madeleine.

In June 1984, Trudeau's successor, John Turner brought Bujold into the Cabinet as Minister of State for regional development.

Bujold is Chair of the Canadian Landmine Foundation, and Past-Chairman of the Board of the Council for Canadian Unity, an organization that he joined in 1990.

Cetaganda is the collective name for an 8-planet empire in the Wormhole Nexus of the Vorkosigan Saga novels of Lois McMaster Bujold.

It was praised by many notable figures in the genre, including Lois McMaster Bujold and Jane Yolen, and was nominated for a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature as well.

* Fantastic Fiction's Bujold website, including a link to a page for The Hallowed Hunt.

Bujold pays token attention to the variations in measurable time units from planet to planet, positing an earth-based “ standard year ” which holds through the entire Nexus.

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.

* Athos, a fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold

Athos, a three mooned planet undergoing extensive terraforming, is what author Lois McMaster Bujold refers to as a " monastery " planet, similar to real-life all-male cloisters.

Instead, Bujold builds prejudice into the “ locale ,” i. e. planetary, economics and history.

Bujold ’ s future is one in which genetic manipulation can produce almost any kind of clone or hybrid.

The Nexus allows Bujold, paradoxically, to imagine a world in which travel and communication require far more time and effort than in the real-life 21st century, since the wormhole jumps present a special barrier.

It is published in the book entitled Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma, which is a collection of short stories and essays by Bujold that had been previously unpublished and that she gathered together in this volume prior to her appearance at a NESFA convention.

He went on to star with Geneviève Bujold in Antigone which was later made into a film in 1974.

* Stunners in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold which causes a temporary reduction in nerve activity within a radius of the impact site.

Bujold ’ s approach varies, sometimes crossing genres.

Bujold ’ s father and brother were engineers, and many of the technological details she incorporates are based on 20th-century engineering situations, projected into null-g or alternative solar system situations ( this is especially true of Falling Free, the most technologically dense of the novels ).

Several of Bujold ’ s scenes can be seen on the Season One DVD extras.

The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

** Interview with Bujold about writing the Vorkosigan Saga by Jo Walton, 2009

* Vorkosigan Saga ( Bujold ) – List of Vorkosigan Saga planets,: Category: Vorkosigan Saga planets

Lois McMasters Bujold quotes Pilgrim's Progress in her short story " Borders of Infinity " set in her science fiction Vorkosigan Saga.

Ethan of Athos is an English language science fiction novel that is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

* Cordelia Naismith, in the Vorkosigan Saga novels by Lois McMaster Bujold

This category contains articles about the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Sequences of genre fiction are not generally considered romans-fleuve ; the Aubrey – Maturin series of Patrick O ' Brian might qualify, and possibly the Vorkosigan Series of Lois McMaster Bujold.

* Memory ( Bujold novel ), a novel in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on nine nominations ; the only other authors to win more than twice are Isaac Asimov ( including one Retro Hugo ), Connie Willis, and Vernor Vinge, who have each won three times.

Bujold presents issues of technological obsolescence and the high rate of failure of R & D projects in personal terms, via bioengineering.

All five of its issues were published while the show was still on the air, and included letters from D. C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry, and most of the cast members, and an article by future Hugo and Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold.

Since its inception, the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti has been awarded to many of the greatest names in French cinema who went on to national and international success such as Micheline Presle, Simone Signoret, Annie Girardot, Geneviève Bujold, Audrey Tautou and Isabelle Adjani.